Dave, I described a process for making a single file that is fully usable by
all people. There are a couple of practical difficulties to such a process
in 2008 that will go away as SVG becomes more popular, but these
difficulties are small compared to the difficulty of maintaining separate
charts.
If you structure your chart well, a blind user doesn't even need a touchpad
to view it, because the elements view can provide an excellent access to
something like an org chart.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-rd@nfbcal.org [mailto:nfb-rd@nfbcal.org] On Behalf Of David
Andrews
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 2:29 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: RE: Accessible Org Charts
Thanks, but we are looking for a way to post graphical, and accessible
charts on the web, but just having to create once -- not twice.
Dave
At 03:08 PM 8/13/2008, John Gardner wrote:
>David, of course you can make universally accessible ORG charts. Just
>use IVEO Creator or Creator Pro, and that's it. You can make an org
>chart in Creator, but the easiest thing is to use whatever software is
>convenient to make org charts in and either export as SVG or create a SVG
file with IVEO
>Converter. Put these into Creator and add labels to any of the lines that
>may help improve accessibility. And check to be sure that the process
>hasn't broken any text spans. Then save it, and you have your chart.
>Ablind person will need a touchpad to read your chart. And if they
>don't have a ViewPlus embosser or some other easy way to make a tactile
>copy, you'll need to send the tactile. But your chart is accessible to
>everybody, even sighted people.
>
>John
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfb-rd@nfbcal.org [mailto:nfb-rd@nfbcal.org] On Behalf Of David
>Andrews
>Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 11:49 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: Accessible Org Charts
>
>Dear Friends and Colleagues:
>
>Many organizations, mine included, produce a so-called org chart, or
>organizational chart. This is one of those things that shows positions
>and people, and shows relationships -- who reports to whom.
>
>These things are usually pretty graphical in nature. However, we are
>looking for any software that will produce either an accessible version
>of an org chart, or a separate accessible, and graphical version. Such
>a thing probably doesn't exist, because of the graphical nature of
>these presentations, however it never hurts to ask. We will probably
>have to continue producing an accessible document by hand -- but .....
>
>David Andrews
>
>
>
>David Andrews and white cane Harry.
David Andrews and white cane Harry.
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